Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Green Heron Pair
Green Heron
Female Orchard Oriole
Canada Gosling
Least Flycatcher
Female Orchard Oriole
Ditto
Great-tailed Grackle
Female Red-winged Blackbird
Great Blue Heron
Prothonotary Warbler
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
Green Heron on Nest
Male Orchard Oriole
Least Flycatcher
Great Blue Heron
05-22 through 05-26-17
This was an impressive workweek, as far as I am concerned. The trumpet vine bush on Boomer
Lake's east side is nearly in full bloom, which invited the Orchard Orioles that nest nearby to partake.
They have nested in the area for years, most likely because this bush exists there, as well as the fact that their site is in the willows by the water, which really attracts a number of good birds to its habitat.
Another wonderful piece of habitat is Heron Cove and the surrounding area, which has native trees, mulberries, and plenty of wetland habitat, which attracts my beautiful Heron colony. Right now, there are two pairs of Green Herons there, which perturbs my Great Blue Heron. He just doesn't have the freedom to come and go as he pleases, but he really does accommodate his Green Heron cousins quite well.
Our usual suspects also enjoy the area, which includes the grackles, blackbirds, warblers, flycatchers, warblers, and when in the area, the catbirds.
Boomer Creek also has dense habitat for those birds that prefer those kinds of areas, like the breeding birds, the shy Yellow-billed Cuckoo, this year's first Least Bittern, and a good group of migratories when they come through.
There are still a few more photos in the camera, which I will save until a later date. These include a few that are a bit on the unusual side, but I'm sure that you'll be pleased.
Until then, enjoy your own private birding areas, and as always, let me know what you are observing.
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